ISP - WiMAX

[jannievdberg]

Anyone know if ISP's going to be selling WiMAX accounts soon? Telkom is almost done testing. Got a price from them today regarding the monthly costs. R420 p/m for a 512kb connection. Any idea on what the costs will be per gig? Same as ADSL?

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

So it was YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! been testing their WiMax all this time and not telling us about it

Im pretty convinced Wi-Max will be a one price deal seeing as Telkom are doing their own and Mweb are doing their own trials too. Mweb being an ISP would usually resell the Telkom service and provide the cap but that doesn't seem to be the case this time.

So for Telkom Wimax it would probably only be TelkomISP and Mweb with Mweb and so forth. However I could be totally wrong with this assumption, and we all know what assuming is

 

[jannievdberg]

According to telkom, they will be reselling accounts for WiMax use to ISP's. They are going to do the same deals like DoBroadband. I dont want to leave WebAfrica!

 

[Nameite]

R420 p/m? If thats the monthly rate, there'll be ISP costs as well!?
Or does that include 3gigs?

Where'd u get ur info from by the way? We must go get more

 

[ldmelsa]

R420 p/m? If thats the monthly rate, there'll be ISP costs as well!?
Or does that include 3gigs?

Where'd u get ur info from by the way? We must go get more

R420 must include everything, I guess.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

R420 must include everything, I guess.

Not with Telkom that doesn't.

Hope more information is forthcoming.

 

[jannievdberg]

R420 is just for the "line rental". R470 includes 1 Gig. If thats the only option you have, then thats not too bad I guess. A 512KB ADSL is about R390 now anyway, without any gigs. So its really not that bad.

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

I disagree. One does not need any type of cable infrastructure and maintenance in place for a wireless connection. I think that fact alone should afford WiMax the opportunity to out price DSL.

So I don't like the price